Average fish catches by traditional fishing communities along the west African coast have declined significantly ... Lax regulation of international fishing trawlers is a second source of the ...

Trawlers at work; the crew on board and landing a catch. The fishing crew are seen with their families on shore shopping and enjoying themselves in the pub. Life aboard a West Coast trawler under ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In Acapulco Harbor, amid the white yachts, R.V. Pacific Storm stood out: a working boat, black hulled, a West Coast ...

The Navy took into custody 04 Indian trawlers that were poaching in Sri Lankan territorial waters during a special operation conducted off Delft Island, on Wednesday (9), it said in a press release on ...

The Bangladesh Navy has apprehended two foreign fishing trawlers and 31 individuals for illegally entering the country’s waters. The vessels were seized on Tuesday afternoon by the warship BNS Shahid ...

Besides search operations through rescue trawlers on the sea, helicopters are also being used for aerial searches. The Coast Guard authorities have also been informed. As per the latest ...

The trawler set out to sea on September 18 with 17 fishermen on board from Kwakdip in the Sundarban areas of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal ... pleaded with the Coast Guard and Navy ...

Amid heavy rain that disrupted normal life in West ... trawler have filed missing reports in local police stations. Mr. Haldar said the 18 fishermen who had ventured from the Kwakdip coast ...

Eight persons were killed, and one was still missing after a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal, around 60 km off the coast of West Bengal, police said adding that eight fishermen could ...

Nine fishermen from Kakdwip are feared dead after their trawler, FB Gobindo, overturned during a storm in the Bay of Bengal. The incident occurred around 2.30 am on Saturday. While eight fishermen ...